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The winners of the 2010 MenuMasters awards have shown innovation and creativity in the face of the worst economy in living memory.As customers tightened their belts, the award-winning chains dug deep for inspiration to develop new menu items that...
Global sugar prices hit 29-year highs in February as bad weather reduced output in Brazil and India, the world’s largest producers. Global prices retreated in March as the supply situation improved, but U.S. prices remain high. After a multiyear...
Removing Chilean sea bass from the menu at Seviche in Louisville, Ky., was a huge risk for owner-chef Anthony Lamas. The buttery-fleshed fish was the core of his restaurant’s most popular dish, and he knew some customers would balk when he...
Crews have been working round the clock for weeks to contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but their efforts have done little to contain fears that the crisis will have lingering repercussions on the restaurant industry.Even as a...
Jonathon Sawyer only just turned 30, not long after being named one of Food & Wine magazine’s best new chefs, but he has already had a long career in the kitchen. On his 13th birthday he took a job in the kitchen of The Mad Cactus in Strongsville...
Looking to add franchisees and reopen some shuttered sites, Quiznos is now willing to loan experienced restaurant managers all but $5,000 of the funds needed to acquire and run a sandwich shop.According to the Denver-based sandwich chain, the...
Chain restaurants across the country with 20 or more units will soon be required to post calories on menus and menu boards under federal law, but Panera Bread didn’t want to wait.Calorie-counting guests can walk into any of the 1,388-unit bakery...
It is a fairly certain bet that this past March 17, and on pretty much every March 17 prior, a fair number of glasses filled with Irish whiskey were raised, clinked and downed. And it is almost equally certain that this will continue to be the...